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WHEMN Conference held at Jefferson Davis Campus
Amy Tuck selected as recipient of 2010 WHEMN Leadership Award
The 2010 Women in Higher Education - Mississippi Network (WHEMN) spring conference was held at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jefferson Davis Campus Feb. 25-26, with more than 70 women in higher education attending. WHEMN was established to identify, develop, advance and support women in higher education in Mississippi. The organization is dedicated to promoting and supporting women in leadership in higher education, assisting in career development and mentoring of women in higher education, and enhancing the visibility of women administrators on Mississippi's campuses.
As a part of the two-day conference, the 2010 WHEMN Leadership Award was given to Amy Tuck, former lieutenant governor, state senator and currently Special Assistant to the president of Mississippi State University. Tuck also serves as the coordinator-elect and program chair for WHEMN, and presented the conference wrap-up on “Lessons in Leadership.”
“We recognized Ms. Tuck because she is such a strong advocate for education in this state and for women in education, and is an outstanding mentor for other women beginning their careers in higher education,” said Anna Faye Kelley-Winders, coordinator of WHEMN and vice president of Community Campus and Institutional Development at Gulf Coast.
Tuck served eight years as Mississippi’s lieutenant governor. Prior to serving in that office, she was secretary of the Senate, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Senate, earlier serving as a state senator for five years. She is a graduate of Mississippi State University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in public policy and administration. In 1989, she received her law degree from Mississippi College School of Law. In 2008, Tuck was appointed by President Bush to The President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. She is the only Mississippian to serve on this prestigious commission. She was the 2007 Mississippi State University Alumna of the Year – College of Arts and Sciences, and is the former chair of the Southern Region of the National Lieutenant Governor’s Association and past member of the NLGA Executive Committee. She served as chair of the Higher Education Appreciation Day Working for Academic Excellence, 1999-2007. Additionally, she is an active member of the Women in Higher Education Network as a representative for Mississippi State University, and is a member of the Official Mississippi Women’s Club.
Special presentations at the spring conference were conducted by Dr. Eric Clark, executive director of the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges; Dr. Donna Burns Phillips, director of the Office of Women in Higher Education; Dr. RoSusan Bartee, associate professor of Educational Leadership at The University of Mississippi; Amy Whitten, Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) board member and principal of The Whitten Group; Dr. Myrtis Tabb, associate vice president of Finance and Administration at Delta State University; Dr. Barbara Taylor Gandy, director of Retention and Adult Learning Services at Pearl River Community College; Celeste Wheat, doctoral student at The University of Southern Mississippi; Dr. Curressia McFarland Brown, interim chair of the Business Department at Mississippi Valley State University; and Dr. Al Rankins Jr., interim assistant commissioner for Academic and Student Affairs for the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.
WHEMN is affiliated with the American Council on Education and the Office of Women in Higher Education. For more information, visit www.mgccc.edu/whemn.
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